Ports & Harbours – Page 71
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NewsSeaboard Sets Sailing Club's Foundations
Marine civil engineering contractors Seaboard Limited has carried out a much needed facelift for a tired concrete waterfront in Chichester Harbour UK.
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NewsShallow Water Terminal Studies
Bureau Veritas is playing a leading role in a joint industry project to investigate shallow water wave conditions in order to provide reliable wave information leading to optimal offshore LNG facility designs.
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NewsRestoration of Hull Swing Bridge
Newly renamed Sheffield engineering company DavyMarkham has been awarded an £ 800,000 contract to restore Hull''s Wellington Street Swing Bridge to full working order. The appointment was announced by Citybuild, Hull''s urban regeneration company, and the work will be overseen by Hull City Council engineers and appointed consultants Pell Frischmann. ...
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Seawork Exhibition Debut for Cathodic Protection Spcialist
First time Seawork exhibitor Hockway Marine Corrosion Services Ltd of Redhill UK has formed a technical alliance with Houston USA based Deepwater Corrosion Services Inc. The alliance will bring Deepwater''s innovative and proven life extension cathodic protection solutions to the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
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NewsSelf Elevating Platform Fleet Expands
Flexifloat Systems BV of Rotterdam is building another C-7 Class modular self elevating platform which will join the company''s rental fleet.
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News£10m Expansion at Port of Tyne
Due to the success of the UK Port of Tyne''s bulk cargo business, a £ 10m investment programme to extend cargo handling facilities has begun.
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NewsLandslide Investigation on Isle of Wight
Coastal landslides can cause considerable damage to roads, buildings and underground services. From the perspective of the Isle of Wight Council, its most valuable assets are coastal defences and an extensive network of important highways and the retaining walls which support them.
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NewsMulti-Purpose Pontoons at Seawork
Making their debut at Seawork 2006 will be EasyFloat Pontoons, an innovative design of lightweight modular floating pontoons which were introduced to the UK market last year by Crystal 32 Ltd.
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NewsNew Linkspans Expand Ports' Capacity
A triple berth ro-ro linkspan designed, built and installed by MacGregor is central to a new river terminal development which opened last month at the ABP Port of Immingham in the UK.
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EMSAGG's Conference Reels-in the Experts
The Construction Industry Research & Information Association (CIRIA) in the UK published an overview of its recent European Marine Sand and Gravel Group (EMSAGG) conference, which was the second such conference.
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NewsPort of Salalah Goes for MoorMaster
The Port of Salalah and Mooring Systems Limited''s licence holder Cavotec Group Holdings (CGH) have concluded a deal for four new MoorMaster 600 (MM600) automated mooring units. The equipment is due to be installed by the end of this month.
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Ghana Gets Belgian Loan to Restore Harbour
The Belgian government is to provide 6.3m under a concessionary loan agreement to Ghana to undertake restoration of a fishing harbour and lagoon in the central region.
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Support for Scotland's Largest Flood Prevention Scheme
Halcrow in the UK has been given the green light to proceed to the detailed design and procurement stage on a £ 50m flood prevention scheme for the White Cart River in Glasgow.
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Delft Hydraulics Testing Dune Revetments
The Dutch Directorate for Public Works and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) has commissioned WL Delft Hydraulics to investigate the behaviour of ''hard'' elements (such as dune foot revetments or boulevards) in sandy dunes.
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NewsNew Mussel Harbour for Warrenpoint
Dawson WAM, the river and marine engineers, have completed the construction of a new mussel harbour and berth development at Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland at a cost of £ 2.6m for the Warrenpoint Harbour Authority which has enabled the bed of the town dock to be lowered in excess of ...
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£5m Kickstarts Barrow Masterplan
The first step of a comprehensive masterplan to transform Barrow in the UK has been given the green light with an investment of over £ 5m from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA).
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NewsGeosynthetic Liner Enables Austrian River Diversion
A river diversion project in Austria which has released an additional six hectares of land on which to build a new hospital was made possible by a self-sealing geosynthetic clay liner.
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NewsInvestment for 'Fast Jets' in Boulogne
The Boulogne Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced a 20m investment in a new ro-ro berth which is due to go into service in 2007.
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NewsVenice Flood Barrier Works Underway
Some 40 years after an abnormal high tide flooded the city and made 5,000 people homeless, the massive marine construction project to protect Venice in Italy is now underway. The Modello Sperimentale Elettromeccanico (MOSE) project involves a system of moveable, automatically operated dikes being placed at the entrance of the ...
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NewsNo Slip-Ups at Seawork
Visitors to Godmanchester''s inland waterways on the River Ouse can look forward to using four new public mooring pontoons this year. Operated by the UK Environment Agency, the existing mooring pontoons were ageing wooden constructions which were a potential safety hazard for users, especially in wet conditions.
